Everett True Comics

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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But the character was eventually rediscovered. One of the collections was reprinted in 1983, sparking a minor flurry of new interest in Ev. He'd long since fallen into the public domain, so others were free to use him — and comic book writer Tony Isabella (creator of Black Lightning, The Champions and It, the Living Colossus), collaborating with several artists, did.

https://www.toonopedia.com/true.htm

~~I hypothesize this is one of the post-public domain examples. The signature there is hard to read, but it's not Condo (the creator) or Meek (who sometimes did them, according to https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/condo_ad.htm) To make a better determination, we'd have to look at the cross-hatching and drawing styles, and track down more examples of the newer comics.~~

Edit: turns out this cartoon came out in 1911; for example, it was printed on October 10, 1911 in The Tacoma Times and in The Seattle Star and October 17 in The Detroit Times. I think the signature is indeed "Meek"; the first three vertical lines in the signature are an "M".